Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault is an Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader. She is the original creator of the Wisdom School and has been organizing and teaching schools since 1999. Founding director of the British Columbia-based Contemplative Society and the Aspen Wisdom School, she has now returned home to the East Coast to divide her time between Wisdom teaching, writing, and solitude at her small hermitage on Eagle Island in Maine. To find out what Cynthia's up to, you can view her master teaching calendar.

An Invitation to Begin the Healing Work: Exploring Jean Gebser, Introduction

Cynthia Bourgeault | November 10, 2020

Well, the oasis of grace miraculously opened, and now it’s time to roll up our collective sleeves and get on with the healing work! I know that my own first […]

The 2020 Annual Fundraising Campaign:
Your Generosity, Making a Difference

Cynthia Bourgeault | October 15, 2020

Dear Wisdom Friends, Once again it’s that time of the year when I have the privilege of inviting you to renew your financial support for Northeast Wisdom. Despite or because […]

Stonington Imaginal School Serves Up Rich Bread for the Journey

Cynthia Bourgeault | September 17, 2020

My heart is filled with gratitude and reverence for the sixteen plucky souls who accepted the invitation to join me for a tiny, on the ground Wisdom School in Stonington […]

Pandemic at Pentecost (letter from Cynthia)

Cynthia Bourgeault | June 1, 2020

Okay, y’all, God help me, here goes…Please note I am not speaking ex cathedra here, from my post as a Wisdom leader, but as a fellow human being speaking my own truth…

Going Forward: Time, Tides, Benedict & Zoom

Cynthia Bourgeault | May 3, 2020

For most of March and April, as many of you know, I have been hanging out here on the edge of the known universe on Eagle Island, taking the time […]

“Atmosphere”: Commentaries on Elements of the Exercises Part IV

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 27, 2020

“Keep within! And when they say, ‘Look here’ or ‘look there is Christ,’ go not forth….” This beautiful gem of Quaker wisdom, set to music by Paulette Meier and well […]

Raised Cyber-Eyebrows: More on Internet Technology and the Pandemic Homework

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 1, 2020

As I expected, I am receiving plenty of raised cyber-eyebrows about the third instruction in Pandemic Homework to: radically decrease or discontinue altogether your use of internet technology to support […]

From the Eagle’s Nest…. (the background to the instructions)

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 24, 2020

This post follows quickly on the heels of “Pandemic Homework”, Cynthia’s previous post and her own “recommendation for inner work during this time of profound planetary readjustment.” It is the […]

Pandemic Homework

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 23, 2020

Dear Wisdom friends: Here is my own recommendation for inner work during this time of profound planetary readjustment. I will send you a fuller explanation as soon as I can, […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part VIII – The Eye of the Heart

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 5, 2020

This is the last in an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that Cynthia prepared from what she calls “one of the best things I have ever written.” It […]